Kerin

“Their eyes close and then open as one, looking down on me, and then up at the sky, as the wind circles them and moans, their gaping now, the airy rush their song, the rush: Yes.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Human lives were short and fragile. Time and illnesses consumed us, like flames burning away these pieces of wood. But it didn’t matter how long or short we lived. It mattered more how much light we were able to shed on those we loved and how many people we touched with our compassion.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing